LONG BEACH -- Jurors on Tuesday are expected to begin deliberating the fate of a Long Beach mom charged with murder in the slaying of her son's 13-year-old gang rival.

Closing arguments were heard Monday afternoon in the case of Eva Daley, 35, who is charged with murder and gang allegations for the June 2007, killing of Jose Cano.

The 13-year-old victim was jumped by a group of seven youths -- members of a tagging crew turned gang -- beaten, kicked and stabbed nine times, Deputy District Attorney Dean Bengston told the court.

The attack followed an incident earlier the same day, when the rivals of Daley's son threw road flares at the back of Daley's apartment and got into a fight with her son and two of his fellow gang members. Six months earlier, Daley's son was stabbed by a member of the other gang in an attack that included Cano, who at one time was in the same gang as Daley's son but who switched sides, the prosecutor noted

Daley was the one who told her son and his friends to gather all their fellow gang members at her house "in a show of force," after she was disrespected by the attack at her home, Bengston said.

Daley was the one to round up all the boys -- who were armed with sticks, bats and at least one knife -- into her Chevy Tahoe to go "smash on the (other gang)," the DA said.

She was the one who, after her son spotted Cano near the 14th Street Park, pulled over and ordered the teens out of the car to carry out the hit. When the attack was over, Daley ran back to her SUV and yelled for everyone to "hurry up â?¦ and come on," then made sure they all got back into the Tahoe -- including the teen who plunged the knife into Cano and whose hands were drenched in blood -- before she fled.

"We want to say to ourselves, 'A mother would never do that,'" Bengston argued. "But then there's the evidence."

"When I look at these trials and I see how different we view the facts I wonder if we saw the same trial," Ramirez said.

While Bengston chalked up the recanting of statements given to police by the other

youths convicted in the case as gang members not wanting to "rat out" Daley, Ramirez said their initial claims were lies made in a panic when the teens were first arrested and facing trial.

"Self preservation is a pretty strong motivator," he argued.

Daley, he said, has no history of gang affiliation. She knew one of her three children was getting into trouble, but not even the police department considered his "crew" a gang at that time. They were thought to be taggers, Ramirez said.

Daley herself testified she was afraid when the other teens attacked her home, so she called her son's friends over, then decided to take them home when a police helicopter swept through the area.

She would never do anything to risk her son's life, or to chance being taken away from other two children, Ramirez argued.

This is the second time Daley has been tried for the slaying. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008, but that conviction overturned two years later by a state appellate court due to an "impermissably ambiguous jury instruction."

If convicted on all counts, she faces the possibility of a life prison term.

Daley's first trial included the alleged stabber as her co-defendant. Heriberto Garcia, who was 15-years-old at the time of the killing, was found guilty of second-degree murder as well. He is currently serving a 15 year to life term.

The other six youths involved in the deadly attack, including Daley's son Mauricio Rivera, were tried and convicted in juvenile court. Many of them were called to testify in the new trial, which began last week. All insisted Daley had no idea what they were up to the night Cano was killed.

Bengston scoffed at the notion, saying it defied logic, and called all the defense witnesses' testimony willfully false and hostile.

"Juan Bautista said (Daley) was shocked when they came back to the car," Bengston recalled, referring to one of the seven teens convicted in the killing. "She doesn't know anything prior to the attack, she doesn't see the attack, she doesn't see the blood â?¦ afterward, so what is she shocked about?"

If Daley was truly taken by surprise at what happened, she would have called the police, or at least been honest when she arrested, Bengston said.

But instead, he argued, she made phone calls from jail, which were recorded, and told her mom and her son's girlfriend to "keep their mouths shut" and instructed them to tell the neighbors to do the same.